Applications of Trade Analytics Tools: Reflections from India's Trade Data

• ISBN13: 9788126939626
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: February 9, 2024
• Pages: 443
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 710 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Engineering (General)

Provides a structured application of major concepts and methodologies in trade analytics, geared towards identification of export markets and products as well as their competitiveness.

Designed as a practical guide for management graduates, researchers, corporate executives and policy-makers, Applications of Trade Analytic Tools familiarizes the readers with various technical approaches to the analysis of international trade flows, market identification and competitiveness measurement procedures. The book also addresses emerging issues in international trade patterns along with the description of standard trade indices and trade modelling techniques. It aims to enable the readers to adopt modelling and analytical tools as relevant to their research problem.

The chapters are closely woven with India’s trade issues at both macro and micro levels. While the macro aspects include the analysis at the country level (i.e., overall trade indices for India involving its trade partners), the product-specific analysis (e.g., competitiveness for individual export items from India at disaggregated level) is conducted in the micro discussions.

Key Features:
• Critical analysis of data drawn from important multilateral trade databases.
• Application of crucial methodologies like ex-post and ex-ante analyses, and partial and general equilibrium models, along with in-depth interpretation of the derived output (e.g., competitiveness analysis, effect of tariff reform) for partner markets.
• Discussion on identifying the non-tariff barriers (NTBs).
• Explanation of the role of trade facilitation measures and trade costs in international business.

Biswajit Nag, Faculty of Economics, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

Debashis Chakraborty, Faculty of Economics, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata.

• List of Annexures
• List of Boxes
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword by L. Alan Winters CB
• Preface
• About the Editors and Contributors
PART A: STRUCTURE AND USE OF TRADE DATA AND INDICES
• 1. Introduction: Trade Analytic Tools for Policymaking and Business Decisions—Application and Interpretation by Biswajit Nag and Debashis Chakraborty
• 2. India’s Trade Pattern and Opportunities with Central Asian Countries: An Application of Select Trade Indices by Debashis Chakraborty and Zaki Hussain
• 3. Emerging Patterns in Intra-industry Trade: An Analysis of India–EU Trade with Select Sectors by Biswajit Nag and Zaki Hussain
PART B: SECTOR-BASED TRADE OUTCOME ANALYSIS
• 4. Export Competitiveness of India’s Leather Products: Application of Select Indices by Debashis Chakraborty and Zaki Hussain
• 5. A Constant Market Share Analysis of India’s Exports to ASEAN Countries by Debashis Chakraborty, Triptendu Prakash Ghosh and Zaki Hussain
• 6. Shift Share Analysis: An Application to the Analysis of Indian Exports by Bibek Ray Chaudhuri
• 7. International Production Networks (IPNs) and Global Value Chains (GVCs) between India and Northeast Asia: An Analysis of Value-added Trade in Selected Industries by Biswajit Nag and Jaewook Lee
PART C: ASSESSMENT OF OPEN ECONOMY INDICATORS
• 8. Balance of Payment Analytics: Application of Select Indices by Ranajoy Bhattacharyya
• 9. Exchange Rate Dynamics and Measuring Balance of Payment Implication by Ashima Puniani and Jaydeep Mukherjee
PART D: TRADE IN SERVICES
• 10. Measuring Services Trade: Major Challenges in India and the Way Forward by Arpita Mukherjee and Tanu M. Goyal
• 11. Services Trade Restrictiveness Index, Methodology and Application: The Indian Context by Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
PART E: TRADE FACILITATION
• 12. Interpreting Trade Facilitation Indices towards a Smooth Regional Trade in Asia-Pacific by Yann Duval, Biswajit Nag and Yuhua Zhang
• 13. Assessing Linkages between Trade Costs and Trade Flows: Applications of Gravity Model by Prabir De and Durairaj Kumarasamy
• 14. Modelling Non-tariff Measures in RTAs by Rajan Sudesh Ratna
• 15. Non-tariff Barriers on Auto-components’ Exports: Application of Select Indices by Debashis Chakraborty, Julien Chaisse and Zaki Hussain
PART G: PARTIAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELLING TECHNIQUES
• 16. Implication of Tariff Reduction through Partial Simulation Using Smart: An Analysis of India’s Import of Passenger Vehicles from Japan and Germany by Biswajit Nag and Pratiksha Chaturvedi
• 17. Gravity Model of International Trade: Understanding the Underlying Dynamics by Zaki Hussain and Biswajit Nag
• 18. Use of Computable General Equilibrium Model in Trade Research: An Application of GTAP Model on India–ASEAN Trade by Chandrima Sikdar
• 19. Advances in Global CGE Modelling and Trade Policy Formulations: Some Issues by G.Badri Narayanan
• 20. Conclusion: Trade Analytic Tools: For Whose Benefits? by Debashis Chakraborty and Biswajit Nag